The E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company minute books document an important era in the history of the company from just before the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. The DuPont Company in this time went through many changes in structure...
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Framed in a giant metal lathe at Ford Motor Companys Rouge plant, Alex Tiebs, a skilled tool and die maker, carefully scrapes bronze insert ends of the lathes jaws so that the large but delicate part to be worked will not be marred. The huge...
Glass block in bands surrounding the monitors and in shafts above the canopies of stainless steel at each entrance to the new Standard Register Company press shop in Dayton, OH have become the new architectural symbol of a business built on holes....
Building powerful engines to generate electricity- A crane man's view of the assembling of a giant turbine in the big plant of the Pelton Water Wheel Company, San Francisco. This big place, which resembles part of a bass horn, is a pipe through...
The first practice flying saucer may turn out to be this plane that will carry 100 passengers at speeds of 600 miles per hour. Six pivoting jet engines mounted around the edge of the plane will life it and land it almost vertically with downward...
Text from image: "To the Fireman: The Man With The Shovel controls the wise use of Coal. The Country needs his skill to prevent waste of fuel reqired to keep us warm and to turn the wheels of industry that shall command Victory."
Continuous caster teeming ladle being placed on the transfer car which will in turn place the ladle over the tundish below. A second empty ladle is on the second transfer car to the right.
Still busily rolling out nylon is this casting wheel, part of the original equipment constructed in 1937 to make some of the first nylon. Although two large yarn plants have since gone into operation, this original wheel (made over from an engine...
This clothes brush with tough, long wearing nylon bristles is guaranteed by its manufacture, Stanley Home Products Company of Westfield, Massachusetts to last 25 years. The brush's construction makes the unusual guarantee possible. The nylon...
Aerial view of the Victoria Plant ten miles south of where the DuPont Company uses products of the petroleum industry, chiefly butadiene and natural gas, to manufacture a chemical knows as adiponitrile, employed in the manufacture of nylon....
One of the huge wheels on which base for DuPont cellulose acetate photographic film is formed at Parlin, New Jersey plant. The wheel shown here is in the shop for replating. In the casting house, liquid dope is flowed on the surface of the wheel....
A control panel in the viscose manufacturing operation at the DuPont Company's Tecumseh, Kansas cellophane plant. Precise control at every stage of the process is essential to uniformity and high quality of the finished product. In the manufacture...
DuPont's operations at Richmond, Virginia involve the manufacture of both film for packaging and textile fibers. The principal film manufacturing facilities are at the right. These units make cellophane, polyethylene and acetate films. The fiber...
New automatic controls for basic research tools permit DuPont operator to turn twelve stills at once instead of the customary four or five. This equipment is in the Plastic Department laboratory.
DuPont's operations at Richmond, Virginia involve the manufacture of both film for packaging and textile fibers. The principal film manufacturing facilities are at the right. These units make cellophane, polyethylene and acetate films. The fiber...
Spectacular night shot shows operators coming to work for midnight shift at DuPont's Sabine River Works, Orange, Texas. Plant works around the clock to turn out such things as intermediates for nylon yarn or Zytel nylon resin; methanol for...
This 3000 gallon mixer at DuPont's Flint, Michigan plant is one of the tools that makes it possible to turn out high quality, low cost finishes on a mass production basis.
The thousands of labels used to identify DuPont products show the diversity of the goods the company makes. For the first century Du Pont was primarily a maker of explosives. The past 50 years have seen the company broaden its base to become the...
